[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 32945] Only 4 simultaneous connections with xmlhttprequest

Sat Dec 26 19:39:59 PST 2009

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32945

Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID
                 CC|                            |ap at webkit.org

--- Comment #1 from Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org>  2009-12-26 19:39:59 PST ---
Other browsers also have a limit for concurrently open HTTP connections - it is
necessary for security reasons, making it more difficult to run distributed
denial of service attacks. In some browsers it's higher than 4 (usually 6 or
8). As of Mac OS X 10.6, the limit of concurrent connections in Safari is 6.
The limit is built into OS networking code which is not part of WebKit, so we
can't raise it in earlier OS releases.

Since it's a security issue, there shouldn't be any workaround (if there is
one, I'd like to know about it to close the loophole).

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